WOMAN SCRIBE ‘ATTACKED’ BY STAFF OF A SHOPPING MALL IN BHUBANESWAR
Report;Odishabarta
Bhubaneswar: Amidst the ongoing demand for a law for the protection of working journalists in Odisha, a woman scribe and her cameraman were allegedly thrashed and abused by staff members of a shopping mall in Bhubaneswar on Saturday.
Swati Jena, a senior lady scribe working for “ARGUS” a web-channel was allegedly attacked when she had reportedly visited the mall to report on ‘illegal collection of parking fees by the authorities of the shopping mall in Rasgulgarh area of the Bhubaneswar the Smart City’.
Unfortunately some staff of the Esplanade shopping mall abused her and attacked Ms Swati and ger Cam person when they had gone there to cover a story regarding illegal collection of parking fees, she alleged.
Swati further alleged that the shopping mall staff, mostly security personnel, snatched their person and damaged their camera and boom.
Based on the complaint a case field by Swati at Sahid Nagar PS and the IIC Sahid Nagar PS has registered a case and assured her action on the basis of CCTV footage.
An employee of the concerned shopping mall said, “Such incident should not have happened and only after probe, everything will be cleared after verification of our CCTV footage.
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